[PHPTAL] Grabbing the METAL template from an object

[Ken Restivo]

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"Fail" in this case means that no substitutions occur.

I get the "main_body_template", but none of my object vars have been swapped in.

Yes, both the metal:define and metal:use-macro are within the same file.

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On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 08:32:52AM +0200, Eric Bartels wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> are you within the same template file? What does fail mean?
> Can you give an error message?
> 
> Eric
> 
> Ken Restivo wrote:
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> >I vaguely remember seeing some very simple way to include a macro from an 
> >object. I remember thinking, "Wow, that reminds me of lisp macros, I could 
> >use that some day".
> >
> >Well, that day is now. It turns out I definitely need this functionality, 
> >and I can't find the reference to where I saw how to invoke it.
> >
> >Basically, the METAL template will be in the database, so users can edit 
> >it with a WYSIWYG editor. I fish the user-edited template out of the 
> >database, and now I have to get PHPTAL to use it.
> >
> >My naive attempt-- which failed-- was:
> >
> >    <div metal:define-macro="main_body_macro" 
> >         tal:content="structure page/thank_you_notes/obj/main_body"></div>
> >
> >        <div metal:use-macro="main_body_macro"></div>
> >
> >Which of course failed. How should I be doing this? 
> >
> >- -ken
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